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Category: Festivals/Events
Published on Tuesday, 25 August 2015 22:33
Written by TheBeerNut

The Irish Craft Beer Festival 2015 is almost here. For three days, dozens of breweries and hundreds of beers will be taking over the RDS in Dublin, alongside whiskey, cider, food, music and debate. It's the perfect opportunity to explore Irish craft beer under one roof, and try beers from breweries you've never met before.

But there's also the chance to taste one-off and rare beers not usually available at all. We've decided to compile this list of the specials we know about to whet your appetite ahead of the festival. It's not complete, it may not even be accurate, but it should get your mouth watering.

Category: Articles
Published on Tuesday, 09 June 2015 13:58
Written by Saruman

This weekend saw the first Killarney Beer Festival take place at the magnificent INEC. Beoir was heavily involved in getting it set up and primarily in running the Killarney Beer Awards as well as educational talks and tasting sessions.

For the awards, we invited 6 international judges from around the world to complement our own experienced judges. Five of these judges were EBCU delegates and are official judges in other EBCU endorsed competitions.

Each category had a senior judge assigned who had the deciding vote where a deadlock occurred.

Those senior judges were:

André Brunnsberg - Finland - EBCU

Theo Flissebaalje - Netherlands - EBCU

Carl Kins - Belgium - EBCU

Jos Brouwer - Netherlands - EBCU

Des De Moor - UK - CAMRA, Beer Writer & Judge

Tom Coughlin - USA - BJCP judge for 10 years

Our Beoir judges were:

Andrew Moore

Steve Lamond

Sara Breitenfeldt

Kevin Walsh

Giacomo Rizzo

Reuben Gray

Thomas Carroll

Brendan Murphy

The most important people on the day were the stewards of course. Kellie Dawson was the lead steward and ensured the judging went smoothly and that we were unaware of what beer we were judging so we could remain impartial. Stewarding on the day was Meg Coughlin and Hilary Gray as well as a member of the INEC staff to act as a runner for beer coming in pitchers from draught.

Each beer that achieved a certain score was awarded a certificate of gold, silver or bronze and that list is being compiled at the moment. Expect more details to follow. For now, here are the best of category winners and the overall best in show.

The Beoir: Champion Beer of Ireland went to James Brown Brews for their Chocolate Orange Stout. This was brewed at the Brú Brewery in Trim.

First Runner Up: Kinnegar - Black Bucket

Second Runner Up: O Brother - The Chancer

The best in show was made up of the top 3 out of all the 1st places each category. These were decided by our international judges in order to maintain complete impartiality as these judges were tasting the beers for the first time that day and couldn't be influenced in their decision making by any recognition of what they were tasting.

Pale Ale -

1st - O Brother Brewing - The Chancer

2nd - Kinnegar Brewing - Scraggy Bay

3rd - Killarney Brewing - Scarlett Pimpernel IPA

Dark Ales -

1st - Torc Brewing - Torc Amber Ale

2nd - St Mels - Brown Ale

3rd - O Brother Brewing - The Fixer

Lager -

1st - Trouble Brewing - Remix

2nd - Carrig Brewing - Pilsner Lager

3rd - Jack Codys - Puck Pilsner

Stouts and Porters -

1st - James Brown Brews - Chocolate Orange Stout

2nd - Jack Cody - Hail Glorious St Patrick Stout

3rd - Kinnegar Brewing - YannaRoddy Stout

Speciality -

1st - Kinnegar Brewing - Blackbucket

2nd - 9 White Deer - Black Lightning IPA

3rd - Black Donkey - Buck It

Belgian -

1st - Hillstown Brewery - Spitting Llama

2nd - Black Donkey - Sheep Stealer

3rd - Kinnegar Brewing - Swingletree Belgian

Wheat -

1st - Elbow Lane - Arrow Weisse

2nd - Hillstown Brewery - Goats Butt

3rd - Franciscan Well - Friar Weiss

Here is the full list of placements. Thanks to all of the breweries that entered beer and congratulations to the winners. I think this represents the most impartial and independently run beer competition in Ireland and I expect there will be even more entries next year.

Category: Articles
Published on Monday, 02 March 2015 18:54
Written by Saruman

The 2015 Dublin Craft Beer Cup was awarded to Coisbo Beer of Denmark for the second year in a row, this time for an imperial Russian stout aged in sherry barrels.

It appears the competition might have been fiercer and the judging more stringent this year. In previous years, it seemed that almost everyone got medals. Not this year, those qualifying for at least a bronze medal were few and far between compared to last year. sure, we got more than last year but we have a lot more breweries and they had a lot more beer to enter than last year so to have over 30 Irish winners among so many world class entries is something we can be proud of.

This year, we had two Irish breweries take home a gold medal. Congratulations to Carlow Brewing for their barrel aged Lean Folláin and also to Manor Brewing for their Mont Irish Mountain Lager.

Like last year, I've taken all of the Irish medal winners from the list and I'm listing them off here. A big congratulations to all of the medal winners. I think you can be even more proud when you consider how many beers didn't get medals this year.

We also had Cider added to the competition this year.

Gold

Carlow Brewing Company - O'Hara's Barrel Aged Leann Folláin

Manor Brewing Company- MONT Mountain Lager

Silver

5 Lamps Dublin Brewing - 5 Lamps Lager

Kinnegar Brewing - Black Bucket

Kinnegar Brewing - Yannaroddy

Rascals Brewing Company - Chocolate Ginger Porter

Rascals Brewing Company - Wit Woo

Blacks Of Kinsale - High Vis

Blacks Of Kinsale - Black IPA

Hilden Brewery - Hilden Irish Stout

Metalman Brewing - Metalman Heatsink

Bronze

12 Acres Brewing Company - 12 Acres Pale Ale

Wicklow Wolf Brewing Company - Black Perle Porter

Kinnegar Brewing - Devil's Backbone

Eight Degrees Brewing - Hurricane IPA

James Brown Brews - Chocolate Orange Stout

Dungarvan Brewing Company - Mine Head

Dungarvan Brewing Company - Mahon Falls

The 5 Lamps Dublin Brewing - Phoenix Dark

Carlow Brewing Company - O'Hara's Leann Folláin

Blacks Of Kinsale - RocketShip IPA

Kelly's Mountain Brew – Revenge

Black Donkey Brewing Ltd - Sheep Stealer

The Porterhouse Brewing Company – Porterhouse Red Ale

The Porterhouse Brewing Company - Wrasslers 4X

Cider

Silver

Dan Kelly's Cider - Fiona's Fancy

Dan Kelly's Cider - Dan Kelly’s Cider

Bronze

Carlow Brewing Company - Falling Apple

MacIvors Cider Co. – MacIvors Medium Cider

MacIvors Cider Co. – MacIvors Traditional Dry Cider

dj's juice and cider- Tempted? Dry Cider

I hope I didn't miss anyone this time. A full list of winners can be found here on the alltech site, though even that list is incomplete. It's more complete than yesterday when it only showed 16 Irish winners.

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